very interesting -- also it seems you need 2/3 of senators present to vote for VP so it can be fillibustered by skipping town and dodging the sgt of arms
anyways, all of the house seats are up for re-election
Oh, duh. I'm dumb. I swear I knew that.
Anyway, makes for an interesting story. Trump v. Sanders. Bloomberg joins in. If he can finagle just one Electoral vote, he's on the house ballot. Assuming Dems take the Senate and GOP keeps the house, the GOP gets to decide. But Dems in the house know that Sanders is DOA among Republican colleages. So Bloomberg's path is to convince all the Dems to vote for him, which they may as well do at this point, and then he just has to flip maybe a few dozen Trump-hating Repubs. They could even court them to his side if the Dems pledged to support the GOP guy for VP if they Repubs support Bloomberg for the top of the ticket. Are there enough Trump haters in the house to allow this to happen? And how would the nation react if both populist candidates were shunned by the House to instead elect a billionaire who wasn't even able to get more than a few electors in a back room deal? Man, that would be some fucking exciting politics.